Araceli Cortez Discussion 7

While reading Oedipus the King, I was able to find timeless human experiences. Jocasta, Oedipus’s mother, had killed herself when finding out who the murderer was. She felt distraught about it being Oedipus, who is her husband, that made her commit suicide. She even said that the prophets were lying because she did not want to believe it. These are human experiences because when finding out something very surprising as this, the first thing you want to do is shut it down and not believe it. In this case, it ended up being true which cause a dark ending to her life. The same had happened to Oedipus the King when he realizes that he had killed his father and married his own mother. He blinded himself because he did not want to see what he caused.